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Hi Everyone, I'm Smakosh and I spent 24 hours coding my REST api, React app and a Gatsby site. Obviously this needs more improvements but here's a funny fact: -Rest API is deployed on Heroku for free -Db is on mlab for free -React app is deployed on Netlify for free -Gatsby site is deployed on Netlify for free -Design made with Adobe XD for free -Illustrations from Undraw.co for free Please slow down on my app hahaha…
Heya! I’m Armin, part of the team behind the 24 Hour Startup Challenge! Over this weekend, there are over 300 founders building products live on Twitch in 24 hours. As I post this, there are almost 90 people live streaming their work from all over the world! You can watch them on 24hrstartup.com. The idea behind this live-streamed hackathon event comes from Pat Walls. He challenged himself to do a 24-hour startup twi…
People could pay to play and gain a shot at the prizes.
Hey... that sounds like a startup. Maybe there is one startup in your event. ;)
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I've never seen a definition of a startup that I like. Here's my personal sniff test... To me, a business is an entity with paying customers. To me, a startup is an entity that wants paying customers before it has them, or has them now but once did not (and it remains a startup until people stop calling it that).
I'm not sure I agree at all. 99% of business in this situation, you would never call a startup. New law firm. New dental office. Your uncle started doing roofing, asks your little brother to work his summer off from Uni with him on roofing. A new golf course installed in a coastal area. A 50 new homes going up in the suburbs. The empty spot on the corner is now a little corner store - beer, wine, chips. New taco rest…
I'd argue that a trait shared by many startups is talking about themselves in the best light possible to get people focused on their future potential, and to me that leaves room for considering a bunch of mega success wannabes cranking out code on Twitch as startups in a startup competition. Shipping, failing fast, getting feedback, pitching... They all sound like startups to me, so that's what I'll call them. May the best startup win!
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Sure! We started with 250 USD which we wanted to put in ourselves, and now we are at: https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1062834446691233793 :) We were able to get soo many awesome Sponsors on board ( https://24hrstartup.com/sponsors )
Heya! I’m Armin, part of the team behind the 24 Hour Startup Challenge! Over this weekend, there are over 300 founders building products live on Twitch in 24 hours. As I post this, there are almost 90 people live streaming their work from all over the world! You can watch them on 24hrstartup.com. The idea behind this live-streamed hackathon event comes from Pat Walls. He challenged himself to do a 24-hour startup twi…
Cool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.
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Cool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.
Quite some irony in the fact that while some people are trying to build products quickly, Hacker News (run by startup incubator YCombinator) has a 20-comment thread debating what 'startup' means.
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I've never seen a definition of a startup that I like. Here's my personal sniff test... To me, a business is an entity with paying customers. To me, a startup is an entity that wants paying customers before it has them, or has them now but once did not (and it remains a startup until people stop calling it that).
I'm not sure I agree at all. 99% of business in this situation, you would never call a startup. New law firm. New dental office. Your uncle started doing roofing, asks your little brother to work his summer off from Uni with him on roofing. A new golf course installed in a coastal area. A 50 new homes going up in the suburbs. The empty spot on the corner is now a little corner store - beer, wine, chips. New taco rest…
I'm quite sure that the dictionary definition is the one that most people will agree with. Silicon Valley did not create the word and so don't get jurisdiction over its definition. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/startup Words and language evolve over time according to usage. The word startup hasn't evolved to that point yet, despite what prominent tech investors and founders would say.
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Or just call them startups if that's what they are. If someone is starting a business selling something then it's a startup, no matter how small initially.
I'm not sure I agree. What you're describing is 'business'. A startup is a company that's focused on something innovative and effectively high growth - something a VC could invest in. Nobody is referring to the new Taco restaurant down the street as a 'startup' even though their revenues will be more than $1 M this year. VC only makes sense in high growth businesses with large markets. Otherwise they are just busines…
Hi Everyone, I'm Smakosh and I spent 24 hours coding my REST api, React app and a Gatsby site. Obviously this needs more improvements but here's a funny fact: -Rest API is deployed on Heroku for free -Db is on mlab for free -React app is deployed on Netlify for free -Gatsby site is deployed on Netlify for free -Design made with Adobe XD for free -Illustrations from Undraw.co for free Please slow down on my app hahaha…
For a couple of tips as someone who uses Heroku, mlab (mongolab), etc:
- Something like https://cloudinary.com/ can automatically compress those images. Will speed up the load and make the project shine even more, since it is loading now a 1390px image in a 320px space.
- A redirect from the netlify.com to the main domain would also be a good idea.